Category Archives: library
Research via Google alone: Are you crazy or just lazy?
Recent research has suggested that an overwhelming number of people think they can get all the information they need on the basis of a Google search. The majority believe there is no need to probe further. Now imagine, if 98% … Continue reading
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Google vs libraries? Do we face an information dream or nightmare?
I was an early adapter to the Internet. I was dialling up to Bulletin Boards and sending off for underground magazines on floppy disc before the internet as we know it was around. And in the infancy of ‘the Web’, … Continue reading
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